In the genetic experiment gone horribly wrong that is Facebook, satire is the deadliest extinct species—as voice actor and professional Santa Jay Branscomb recently found out, when he posted the above photo decrying Steven Spielberg’s s... #spielberg

It's more than just one thing, of course. But Spielberg's masterful use of the long take is one of the things that make him so great. While most directors would use the long take as a way to teleport the viewer into another world an...

The director and star Leonardo DiCaprio are told 'shame on you' by screenwriter outraged by film's depiction of sex and drug-taking• Read Xan Brooks' first-look review of The Wolf of Wall Street hereIt has been tipped as a major awards-season contender. But a picture is beginning to emerge of the struggle faced by Martin Scorsese to achieve victory for his racy drama The Wolf of Wall Street at next year's Oscars ceremony after the veteran film-maker was harangued at an official Academy...

Acclaimed American director favours classic black-and-white horror, such as The Haunting and Dead of Night – but The Shining gets a look-in• Guardian and Observer critics' top 10 horror movies• 'Here's Johnny!': The Shining scene is scariest in movie history, claims studyMartin Scorsese has named his top 11 scary movies – and surprise, surprise, there's not a Hostel or Saw to be seen. Instead the professorial director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Shutter Island has come down firmly in...

The Django Unchained director has dismissed talk over Ben Affleck's casting as the dark knight as irrelevant but defended Disney flop The Lone RangerQuentin Tarantino has dismissed Batman as a boring movie character, while explaining why he placed critical turkey The Lone Ranger on his recent top 10 of films from 2013.Interviewed by French magazine Les Inrockuptibles, in comments subsequently translated by The Playlist, the Oscar-winning film-maker poured scorn on the current furore over Ben...

Actor says he and director who worked together on GoodFellas have another gangster film lined up• Robert De Niro: 'I'd like to see where Travis Bickle is today'• John Patterson: Robert De Niro just keeps making crap moviesRobert De Niro has confirmed that he is planning to reunite with director Martin Scorsese on a gangster film in the near future.Speaking at a press conference in London for his latest film The Family, a gangster comedy directed by Luc Besson, De Niro said: "I have another...